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Brandom on Perceptual Knowledge

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Published/Copyright: August 10, 2021

Abstract

According to Brandom, perceptual knowledge is the product of two distinguishable capacities: (i) the capacity to reliably discriminate behaviorally between different sorts of stimuli, and (ii) the capacity to take up a position in the game of giving and asking for reasons. However, in focusing exclusively on the entitlements and commitments of observation reports, rather than on perception itself, Brandom passes over a conception of perceptual experience as a sort of contentful mental state. In this article, I argue that this is a blind spot, which makes Brandom’s account of perceptual knowledge unable to properly accommodate the phenomenon of seeing aspects.


Corresponding author: Daniel Kalpokas, Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, Instituto de Humanidades, CONICET, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Pabellón Agustín Tosco, Ciudad Universitaria, Cordoba, 5000, Argentina, E-mail:

The present article is an improved and much more developed version of Section 4 of my article Kalpokas (2019).


Acknowledgments

I am very grateful to the anonymous reviewers of JTP and Laura Danón for their sympathetic and insightful suggestions.

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